Review: Right as Rain

Right as Rain by Lindsey Stoddard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Rain's older brother passed away nearly a year ago, and her family has tried to bury their grief down deep. Her father barely gets out of bed, and her mother is always rushing around somewhere so she doesn't have time to think about her loss. Rain's mom decides they all need a fresh start in a new city miles away from where they were once a family of four. Rain knows that only one out of four marriages survive the death of a child. She's a numbers person; those aren't good odds, and "that's a fact." She is desperate to help her parents finds their way back to each other, but how she will accomplish that is a "big who-knows."

Rain will run away with every reader's heart. You will feel the depth of her sadness as well as the guilt she feels over her brother's death. Your heartbeat will race when you feel her anxiety of writing and sharing poetry with her classmates. Most of all, you will feel how badly she wants to hold her family together. Make sure to have a box of tissues close by when you read this novel because it will definitely tug at your heartstrings. Right as Rain is a perfect read for those kids who want a book that makes them "feel things."

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